Economics Databases
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Business Source PremierProvides full text for more than 2,300 scholarly business journals. With full text back to 1965, and searchable cited references back as far as 1998. Covers all business fields.
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NBER Working PapersFull texts of National Bureau of Economic Research working papers published from 1973 to the present. NBER researchers initially report their findings in scientific papers aimed at other professional economists.
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ProQuest Social Science Journals This link opens in a new windowThis database includes over 535 titles, with more than 310 available in full text. Disciplines represented range from anthropology, sociology, political science to communication, education, criminology, demography, economics and more.
General Databases
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowLarge, multi-subject index of scholarly articles, with the ability to follow cited-by articles. Full-text access is limited to journals the RU Library subscribes to and those freely available on the web.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR provides students with exposure to peer reviewed scholarly research with a reference resource of over 1,500 academic journals and other content.
How do I...
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Search a database?Tips and tricks for searching an academic database.
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Get the full text of articles?When the RU Libraries do not have the full text of an article, you can request it through interlibrary loan (ILL).
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Find scholarly journal articles?This guide describes scholarly, popular, and news articles as well as where to find them and how to identify them.